"Life there was hard and it made people hard." ― Jeannette Walls Life Person From Jeannette Walls Novelist Added on 1/31/2026 About Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist, best known for the memoir The Glass Castle. Her writing often draws on family history and personal experience. Born: 1960-04-21 View all quotes from Jeannette Walls